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THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN THE AMERI 
CAN REVOLUTION AND PATRIOTS OF 
THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD WHO 
ARE INTERRED IN THE DISTRICT 
OR IN ARLINGTON. 


By SELDEN MARVIN ELY. 

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Records of The Columbia Historical Society, Vol. XXI, 1918 


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[Reprinted from The Records of The Columbia Historical Society, 

Vol. 21, 1918.] 


THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA IN THE AMERI- 
CAN REVOLUTION AND PATRIOTS OF 
THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD WHO 
ARE INTERRED IN THE DISTRICT 
OR IN ARLINGTON. 

By SELDEN MARVIN ELY. 

(Read before the Society, March 20, 1917.) 

All of the thirteen original states are making efforts 
to form complete rolls of the soldiers and sailors, and 
to some extent, the civil patriots, of the American 
Revolutionary period. Several of the states have 
fairly complete records ; others are even now advertis- 
ing for reliable papers and data. 

The merest tyro in history knows that there was, 
during the Revolutionary period, no District of Co- 
lumbia as a political entity. The Constitution of the 
United States, Section 8, Article 1, reads as follows: 

■‘The Congress shall have power to exercise exclusive Legis- 
lation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not ex- 
ceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular 
States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat 
of the Government of the United States.” 

Acting under the provision of this clause Congress 
passed an act, July 16, 1790, and amended said act 
March 3, 1791. Proceedings taken to make provision 
for a federal district under authority of these acts re- 
suited in the establishment of the present area, ulti- 
mately, as the seat of government of the United States. 
For the purposes of this paper, there is no concern 
about the retrocession to Virginia under the act of 
Congress of July 9, 1846, of the part south of the Po- 
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tomac except in the fact that Arlington National Ceme- 
tery lies within said limits. The lines of the District 
of Columbia were finally settled by proclamation of 
President George Washington, March 30, 1791, and 
are now familiar. From the outbreak of the Revolu- 
tionary War to this date there was a span of sixteen 
years. The population from 1775 to 1783 would be a 
matter of interest, but the figures would be largely a 
guess, as the earliest census includes the Virginia 
area as well. 

It is hoped that this narrative, and to some extent 
argument, will serve two purposes : first, to put the 
District of Columbia in line with the several states, as 
heretofore recorded; and second, which is perhaps the 
more important from the present and utilitarian view- 
point, if it can be shown that this District was once 
inhabited by its due proportion of patriots who helped 
establish this great triumphant democracy, and that if 
their descendants may be found in like proportion 
among its citizens, may it not be inferred that this area 
is entitled to the rights, privileges, and immunities of 
other areas in the United States of America? The 
registers of the Sons of the Revolution, the Sons of 
the American Revolution, but more especially the 
Daughters of the American Revolution, show that such 
population has persisted in the District of Columbia 
to a greater extent than in any other equal territory in 
the United States. It is an axiom that “ blood will 
tell.” Then why deprive these citizens, especially the 
ladies, of the rights of citizens elsewhere? It will be 
shown that Congress lias no right to make or to refer 
to such people as “tax dodgers” and “neutralized.” 
Had these men whose names and deeds will be herein 
later recorded known that their land and descendants 
were to be subjected to such humiliations, they would 


Ely: The District in the American Revolution. 131 


perhaps have been justified in being Tories. And who 
knows but that from their numbers, courage, and 
strategic position at the head of navigation of the Po- 
tomac, they might have turned the results in favor of 
King George. Then again, could George Washington, 
the patriot, have foreseen the present condition of the 
citizens of the citv which hears his name, and who 
would like to honor it, would he have been as ardent to 

have it located near Mt. Vernon? More naturally he 

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would have advised a situation on the Thames or the 
archaic Nile. Dates have been previously given to 
show that the citizens themselves could not have had 
any intimation of such use of their soil. In so far as 
leaks were at that time available, records of the Co- 
lumbia Historical Societv show that the site was fore- 

*/ 

shadowed to be on the insignificant Delaware, and the 
particular spot Germantown, not Georgetown. The 
citizens of Germantown may now he pictured, perhaps 
properly, as permitting themselves to be ‘ ‘ tax dodgers, ’ ’ 
but certainly they cannot be thought of as allowing 
themselves to he voteless. 

To return to the more serious phase of this paper, 
as far as is known, no person has heretofore attempted 
to list the patriots of the District of Columbia in ac- 
cordance with the title used. A few characters have 
been written up extensively, a number of graves lo- 
cated and marked by individuals and by patriotic so- 
cieties, such as the S. A. R., the S. R., and especially 
the D. A. R., but no comprehensive effort has been 
made to group them all. To the extent to which such 
new lists and names follow or are identified elsewhere, 
this record claims to be a research. A word of ex- 
planation, however, is necessary as to its scope. 

In 1912, Mr. William V. Cox, the president of the 
District of Columbia Society of the Sons of the Ameri- 


132 Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 


can Revolution, appointed a committee “to locate 
the graves of patriots of the American Revolution who 
are interred in the District of Columbia, or Arlington 
National Cemetery. ” The committee was composed 
of the writer, chairman, and Messrs. Zebina Moses and 
Fletcher White. Following the early death of Mr. 
White, Caleb Clarke Magruder, Jr., was named to 
take his place. The committee made a report to the 
Society through its chairman on March 24, 1915. 
With the permission of the Sons of the American Revo- 
lution, that report has been drawn on freely for this 
paper, because it is felt that the researches therein 
noted are the cause of the invitation to the author to 
prepare this more permanent record. In connection 
with the work of the committee of the Sons of the 
American Revolution, reference should be made to a 
paper submitted to the Society on March 18, 1914, by 
Zebina Moses on “Obliterated Cemeteries in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia. ” Future investigators will find the 
information brought out by Mr. Moses on file with the 
secretary of the Sons of the American Revolution, and 
they will find also the report of the committee to which 

reference has alreadv been made. The committee’s 

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report goes somewhat into detail respecting the inves- 
tigations made; briefly they are as follows: 

A study of individual characters made by Mr. Ma- 
gruder for verification or rejection of their patriotic 
service, and by the chairman: many visits to all burial 
grounds, correspondence with the superintendents of 
cemeteries in the District of Columbia to discover either 
original or re-interments, correspondence with the 
Quartermaster-General of the Army, with several 
chief clerks, as well as with many men who might have 
knowledge. The chairman personally scanned all of 
the District of Columbia papers for the eighteenth cen- 


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tury now on file in the Library of Congress, as well as 
many copies of District papers from 1800 to dates 
where further search seemed useless. The chairman 
also examined the reports of the Columbia Historical 
Society, especially the papers of Hugh T. Taggart, 
Esq., who has made elaborate researches in the records 
of old Georgetown. He also studied bibliographies of 
the District of Columbia, and in detail the one by W. 
B. Bryan for suggestive titles. Credit must be given 
Dr. G. M. Brumbaugh for adding two new names from 
D. A. R. reports and giving some good suggestions 
when he read this manuscript in anticipation of editing 
a list to appear in a forthcoming issue of The National 
Genealogical Society Quarterly . 

Forty positive locations may now be recorded and 
information submitted on many others. 

Arlington National Cemetery. 

1. John Green, a re-interment from Virginia, lies in 
Lot 503, Western Division, Officers’ Section. His 
death occurred in 1793. He was born and died in Lib- 
erty Hall, Culpeper County, Virginia. This John 
Green was Colonel of the Sixth and Tenth Virginia 
Regiments of Volunteers in the Revolutionary War. 
John Green’s grave is covered with a fine monument, 
the inscriptions on which show his military career. 

2. Joseph Carleton lies in Lot 299, Western Division, 
Officers’ Section. He died March 11, 1812. His re- 
mains were removed from the old Presbyterian Ceme- 
tery, Georgetown, to Arlington, November 13, 1907. 
Joseph Carleton was a merchant of Georgetown, and 
at his death was fifty-eight years of age. During the 
Revolutionary War he was paymaster to the Board of 
War. His grave is covered with a disintegrating flat 
slab. 


134 Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 


3. Thomas Meason or Mason (both spellings are 
found connected with this man’s name) lies in Lot 
297-B, Western Division, Officers’ Section. He passed 
away March 10, 1813. His remains were removed 

from the Presbyterian Cemetery, Georgetown, to Ar- 

✓ 

lington, on May 12, 1892. This Thomas Meason was 
a Brigadier-General in the United States Army. He 
is found once in the General Index as a Sergeant of 
Darr’s Detachment Pennsylvania Troops. Heitman’s 
Register, however, records him as Thomas Mason, re- 
tired, and as captain, January 1, 1781, of a Maryland 
regiment. His home was Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 
but he died in Georgetown. His grave is covered with 
a flat slab. 

4. James House , Lot 297-A, Western Division, Offi- 
cers’ Section, who entered into rest November 17, 1834, 
was removed from the Presbyterian Cemetery to Ar- 
lington May 12, 1892. The Quartermaster’s records 
show James House as a General of the United States 
Army. He is found once in the Consolidated General 
Index Revolutionary War as Mattross in the First Ar- 
tillery Regiment Continental Troops. His grave is 
marked with an old marble monument. 

5. Caleb Swan , Lot 301-C, Western Division, Offi- 
cers’ Section, died November 29, 1809, and was re- 
moved from the Presbyterian Cemetery to Arlington 
May 12, 1892. Caleb Swan is found as an ensign of 
the Third and Eighth Massachusetts Regiments, and 
Heitman’s Register records him also as paymaster- 
general, United States Army. His grave is covered 
with a flat broken stone. 

G. James Maccubbin Ijingan, Western Division, Offi- 
cers’ Section, who was killed in the riots at Baltimore, 
Maryland, 1812, was interred on his private estate, 
Harlem, in Georgetown, and on November 5, 1908, his 


Col. Hist. Soc., Vol. XXI, Pl. II 



Approximately Marked Grave of Revolutionary Soldier, James 

McCubbin Lingan, Arlington. 





























Ely: The District in the American Revolution. 135 


remains were removed to Arlington. A great deal has 
appeared in the local papers with respect to this un- 
usual character. Suffice it to say here that he went 
out from Georgetown in the Revolutionary War and 
saw service as ensign and lieutenant in Maryland and 
Virginia Regiments in Continental Troops. Taggart 
gives him as lieutenant-colonel in the Maryland line. 
His grave is covered with a monument upon which is 
inscribed his military record. Beside this monument 
stands a Daughters of the American Revolution marker, 
which was placed there by Dolly Madison Chapter, 
D. A. R. 

7. The Arlington records show that the remains of 
Jolm Follin, who departed this life April 17, 1841, were 
removed from a point near Falls Church, Virginia, and 
re-interred in Lot 294-A on May 29, 1911. In view of 
the fact that this John Follin has many descendants 
in and about Washington, it will be appropriate that 
a more extended, notice be given. John Follin was 
born either within or near the old District line in Alex- 
andria County, A r irginia. He enlisted in the Navy 
from Alexandria, was captured and taken as a pris- 
oner of war to Plymouth, England, and from there was 
transported to Gibraltar. He was flogged several 
times because he would not serve in the British Navy. 
They claimed the right to his service as a British sub- 
ject. John Follin had two wives and thirty children, 
twenty-one from the first marriage, and nine from the 
second. One of these children died within the past few 
years. His grave is marked with a large stone monu- 
ment in which is inserted a bronze plate showing his 
military services. Credit for the removal of the ashes 
of John Follin from their obscure resting place to a 
more worthy grave in Arlington is due to Mr. Gabriel 
Edmonston, one of his descendants, and now an esti- 


136 Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 

mable old gentleman of the District. The wife of Wil- 
liam A. Miller, of the Library of Congress, is of his 
lineage also. Mr. Miller made the photographs of 
monuments and markers which accompanied the Sons 
of the American Revolution report. 

8. Pierre Charles L’ Enfant was interred in Green 
Hill, Prince George’s County, Md., but on April 28, 
1908, was removed to Arlington with fitting ceremonies. 
His monument is most appropriately inscribed and 
his brilliant military and civil career too well recorded 
to need repetition here. 

The 15th Report, D. A. R., 1911-12, p. 69, lists the 
following re-interments in Arlington not included 
above: William W. Burrows , Stephen Cassin, John A. 
Davis, Edward Jones, Alexander Macomb , John T. 
Ritchie and John R. Wilson. All of these names have 
been under search by the writer for five years. Some 
of the men probably rendered Revolutionary aid, e. g ., 
Edward Jones, but for the purpose of this research 
proof is lacking. Others certainly did not, for in- 
stance, Stephen Cassin and Alexander Macomb, who 
were not born until 1783, and Lieutenant Ritchie, who 
did not see the light until 1788 according to his death 
notice in the National Intelligencer. 

In the Congressional Cemetery. 

1. The remains of Jacob Gideon, a Revolutionary 
soldier, lie in the Congressional Cemetery. He is of 
special interest also, because two of his descendants, 
Philip F. and John B. Larner, are members of the Co- 
lumbia Historical Society and the S. A. R. Jacob 
Gideon was a trumpeter and private in the Pennsyl- 
vania militia. His name also appears in the index of 
“Eckenrode’s Virginia Archives” as having applied 
for bounty lands in Virginia. The inscription on his 
monument, a marble slab, reads : 


Col. Hist. Soc., Vol. XXI, Pl. III. 



Grave of Jacob Gideon, Congressional Cemetery. 















































































































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“In memory of Jacob Gideon, a soldier of the Revolution, 
died March 3, 1841, aged eighty-seven years, ” 

In the National Intelligencer of March 5, 1841, ap- 
peared the following notice : 

“Died, in this City on Wednesday evening, the 3rd in- 
stant, Mr. Jacob Gideon, Sr., a soldier of the Revolution, 
aged eighty-seven years. 

“His friends and acquaintances and those of his son, Jacob 
Gideon, Jr., are requested to attend his funeral this morning, 
Friday, at 11 o’clock from the residence of his son, on 7th 

Street, between E and F streets.” 

• 

* 2. Captain Hugh George Campbell. The actual 
Kevolutionary services of this Hugh George Campbell 
are somewhat shrouded. His name does not ap- 
pear in any of the indexes of the South Carolina Ar- 
chives. It is, however, an indubitable fact obtained 
from the current literature 6f his later life that the 
inscription on his monument states the historical truth. 
The inscription reads as follows : 

“Beneath this marble rest the mortal remains of Hugh 

George Campbell, late a Captain in the Navy of the United 

States. He was a native of the State of South Carolina. In 

the year 1775 he entered as a volunteer on board the first 

vessel of the war commissioned by the Council of his native 

State. He served his country upward of 22 years as a 

Comrade and died in this City on the 11th day of November, 

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1820, aged about 62 years.” 

i 

Calahan, in “Officers of the Navy, 1775 to 1800,” has 
this entry: 

“Hugh George Campbell appointed Commander 27 July, 
1799, Captain 16 October, 1800.” 

3. In the Congressional Cemetery lie the remains of 
Honorable Elbridge Gerry, who was gathered unto his 


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fathers in Washington during his second year as Vice- 
President, on November 23, 1814. The military serv- 
ices of Gerry are noted by Heitman. It is proper also 
to record that he was born at Marblehead, Massachu- 
setts, July 17, 1744, graduated at Harvard, and became 
a member of the Continental Congress of 1776. He 
was also a member of the First National Congress of 
1789, and was one of the envoys sent to establish rela- 
tions with France in 1797. He was elected governor 
of Massachusetts in 1810, and Vice-President of the 
United States in 1812. His grave is covered with a 
handsome monument which was erected by an act of 
Congress in 1823. 

4. At this point it will be well to record that General 
George Clinton was originally interred in Congres- 
sional Cemetery, where he remained until a few years 
ago, when his body was transferred to New York with 
considerable ceremony. 

5. General James Jackson , one of the most distin- 
guished Georgians, reposes in Congressional Ceme- 
tery. His enviable military record is to be found in 
Heitman, and more extensively, together with his civil 
life, in the “National Portrait Gallery.’ ’ He was gov- 
ernor of Georgia, and United States Senator from 
1801 to March, 1806. He passed away on the 19tli of 
March of that year and was interred, the “Portrait 
Gallery” states, “four miles from Washington, ’ ’ which 
was in fact Eock Creek churchyard. He was re- 
interred in Congressional Cemetery under one of those 
quaint cenotaphs. A Revolutionary War, D. A. R., 
marker stands on his grave, and the last phrase of the 
inscription on his tomb is “a soldier of the Revo- 
lution.” 

6. Senator Uriah Tracey, of Connecticut. “Con- 
necticut Men in the Revolution” lists the name of 


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Uriah Tracey in a company that marched from sundry 
places for the relief of Boston, etc., in the Lexington 
Alarm, April, 1775, and were formed into an independ- 
ent and ranging company at Roxbury. The military 
services of Senator Tracey were of a clerical nature 
for a short period. There is nothing on his grave to 
permanently record his army connection. He was the 
first congressman to be interred in Congressional 

Cemetery. This occurred July 19, 1807, by exhuma- 

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tion from Rock Creek. 

7. General Thomas Blount, a representative from 
North Carolina, was born in Edgecombe County, May 
10, 1759, and at tlie age of sixteen entered the Revolu- 
tionary Army. In 1780 be became a deputy paymaster- 
general, and was a major commanding a battalion of 
North Carolina militia at the battle of Eutaw Springs. 
The Congressional Biography ranks him a major- 
general of militia. He enjoyed a long congressional 
career, passing away while a member, February 7, 
1812. There is no inscription on his monument of 
patriot service. 

8. Honorable Levi Casey, of South Carolina, served 
in the Revolutionary War as a brigadier-general of 
militia. He was born in South Carolina in 1749 and 
died in Washington, February 1, 1807. Evidence 
seems to show that his ashes were placed in Congres- 
sional Cenetery by re-interment, August 1, 1832. His 
gravestone contains no patriot inscription. 

9. The “Pennsylvania Muster Rolls record Henry 
Black as a private, York County Militia; Corporal, 
Cumberland County Militia, and Captain, Bedford 
County Militia. He was a member of Congress from 
Somerset, Pennsylvania. This patriot passed away 
November 28, 1841, but evidently was re-interred in 
Congressional Cemetery June, 1842. There is no 
Revolutionary marker. 


140 Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 


10. Colonel James Morrison, of Lexington, Ken- 
tucky, died in Washington, D. C., April 23, 1823. He 
was a native of Pennsylvania, and Heitman registers 
him as an ensign, Eighth Pennsylvania from 21st of 
December, 1778, until he retired January 1, 1781. Col- 
onel Morrison settled in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1792, 
and became a man of great wealth and founder of Mor- 
rison College in Lexington. He was state representa- 
tive from Fayette and Quartermaster-General. The 
only record on his monument of military service is the 
title “Colonel.” 

11. Doctor Elisha Harrison’s remains also repose 
in Congressional Cemetery. His name is found in the 
Maryland Archives and also in Heitman ’s, where he 
is recorded as enlisting in the Fourth Maryland, the 
15th of October, 1781, and retired 1st of January, 1783. 
The Doctor entered into rest August 26, 1819, aged 
fifty-nine. The site of liis original interment is not 
known, but he was transferred to Congressional Ceme- 
tery April, 1823. Part of the chiseling on his monu- 
ment reads as follows: “A native of Maryland and 
surgeon in the Revolutionary War.” 

12. “ Major John Kinney, of New Jersey, an officer 
in the Army of the Revolution Died in this city July 
17, 1832, aged seventy-five years” is cut in another 
monument in Congressional Cemetery. John Kinney’s 
name as an ensign, New Jersey Line, is found in IT. S. 
Pension Roll, p. 514. Heitman gives him a splendid 
record for three years’ service. 

13. Janies Gillespie, a member of Congress from 
North Carolina, passed away January 11, 1805. His 
patriot record includes membership in the State Con- 
vention of 1776, and the State House of Commons 
1779-1783. The ashes of this distinguished man were 
transferred to Congressional Cemetery from the old 


Ely: The District in the American Revolution. 141 


Presbyterian Cemetery, April 14, 1892, and now lie 
under a marble monument just south of the superin- 
tendent’s residence. The only inscription is “James 
Gillespie, North Carolina, died January 11, 1805.” 

14. H. Brockholst Livingston was born in New York 
City, November 26, 1757, and died in the District of 
Columbia, March 19, 1823. He entered the Revolu- 
tionary Army with the grade of captain and won the 
rank of lieutenant-colonel. Colonel Livingston be- 
came also an eminent diplomat and jurist, being a jus- 
tice of the United States Supreme Court. 

The body of the Honorable James Jones, of Georgia, 
rests in Congressional Cemetery. There was a James 
Jones in Georgia who was a prominent civil patriot, 
but it has not been possible to make identification. 
Representative Jones may have been this Georgia state 
assemblyman, but some facts of residence seem to in- 

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dicate that lie was not. 

The remains of Tobias Lear , the private secretary 
to George Washington and foreign emissary, repose in 
Congressional Cemetery. Some reports include Lear 
as worthy of Revolutionary honors. He came of a 
patriot family and a “Tobias Lear” signed a petition 
to the State Committee of Safety from Portsmouth, 
New Hampshire, May 5, 1777. Reliable biographies 
give the date of his birth September 19, 1762, and this 
would make his age such as to cast doubt on his sign- 
ing the petition. The signature is probably that of his 
father, Captain Tobias Lear, Sr. The career of To- 
bias Lear, Jr., seems to have begun after he was grad- 
uated from Harvard in 1783. 


Rock Creek Cemetery. 

1. Peter Faulkner, was originally interred in Hol- 
mead, but was later transferred to Rock Creek. The 
inscription on his monument reads : 


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“ Peter Faulkner, an officer in the Army of the United 
States during the Revolutionary War, who departed this life 
September 27, 1823.” 

The inscription reads “September 27, 1823. ” Heit- 
man gives liis death as September 20, 1823. The Sep- 
tember “20, ” however, is an error. This discrepancy 
led to much uncertainty until a recent date, when the 
writer was making searches in the Congressional Li- 
brary, where he found in the National Intelligencer of 
September 30, 1823, a death notice which completely 
cleared the matter. Heitman, in his “Officers of the 
Continental Army,” states: 

“Peter Faulkner. Private of Regiment in Lee s Battalion 
of Light Dragoons Pulaski Legion 1778-9, Ensign 2d New 
Jersey, 17th June, 1780. Retained in New Jersey Battalion 
1783, and served to 3rd of November, 1783. Captain 11th 
United States Infantry, 8th January 1799 — honorably dis- 
charged 15 th June, 1800 — Military Storekeeper, United States 
Army 19th August 1818, dismissed 20th June, 1820 — died 
20th September, 1823.” 

There appeared in the National Intelligencer , Septem- 
ber 30, 1823, the following: 

“In this citv, on the 27th instant after a short illness, 
Captain Peter Faulkner, an officer in the Army of the United 
States during the Revolutionary War; a gentleman of ex- 
emplary conduct, and highly esteemed by all who knew him. 
He has left a widow to mourn her bereavement in the midst 
of strangers. May consolation flow to her from higher than 
an earthly source.” 

2. Rock Creek Cemeterv also contains the remains 

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of Colonel William Deakins, Jr., sometimes spelled 
Deakin. Mr. Moses is of the opinion that he was origi- 
nally interred in the Cedars burying-ground where 
now stands the Western High School, Georgetown. 
The inscription on his monument reads : 


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“Colonel William Deakins died March 3, 1798, aged 56. 
In his death his family have lost an unshaken friend and a 
bright example of philanthropy, the poor a liberal benefactor, 
the distressed of every class a willing helper, Society one of 
her illustrious ornaments, and George Town by the blow has 
lost her most illustrious Patron. 

“His affectionate connections have marked the place where 
his remains are deposited in this Sepulchre in order to testify 
their regard for his memory, to perpetuate to posterity the 
record of his virtues. 

“Blessed are the merciful, for thev shall obtain mercv. ” 


The Georgetown newspapers of that date contain 
about the same phraseology in their reports of his 
death. In the Archives of Maryland may be found the 
following report with respect to William Deakins, Jr.: 


“Enrolled by Capt, Benjamin Spyker. Reviewed and 
passed by Will Deakins, Jr., Frederick County, July 29, 
1776. (Then follows a list of twenty men.) 

“Enlisted by Greenbury Gaither. Reviewed and passed 
by Will Deakins, Jr., Frederick County, July 29, 1776. ” 
(Then follows twenty names.) 

His grave is covered with a flat stone. 

3. The bones of Senator Abraham Baldwin , of 
Georgia, lie in Rock Creek Cemetery under a small 
marble monument, erected jointly to the memory of 
his sister, Mrs. Joel Barlow, and himself. The re- 
mains of Senator 'Baldwin were thrice interred, first 
in Rock Creek, beside his colleague, Senator James 
Jackson, then transferred to Kalorama, and finally 
again to Rock Creek, just down the slope from the 
famous Saint Gaudens’ figure. The Biographical 
Congressional Directory gives a splendid patriot rec- 
ord for Senator Baldwin. He was also a member of 
the National Constitutional Convention. As stated 
before, he was a brother of Mrs. Barlow. Joel Barlow, 


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of Connecticut, one of the famous fighting chaplains of 
the Revolution, resided for several years on Kalorama 
Heights. It was from there that he went on his last 
great diplomatic mission to Europe, and died from ex- 
posure to cold at Zarniwica, Poland, December 24, 
1812. It would be a worthy effort of one like unto 
Horace Porter to locate Joel Barlow’s body and bring 
it to Arlington. 

4. Thomas Boyd , of Maryland, is another Revolu- 
tionary soldier whose mortal clay undoubtedly rests 
in the Queen vault in Rock Creek Cemetery. His en- 
viable military record is found in Volume 18, Maryland 
Archives, Saffell, Heitman, as well as the records of 
the War Department and the Society of the Cincinnati. 
At the final muster out he was adjutant of the famous 
Fifth Maryland. Thomas Boyd was a Justice of the 
Peace in his native county, Prince George’s, from 1777 
to the year of his death, 1797. He was laid to rest first 
in the Queen burying-ground in the northeastern part 
of the District of Columbia. 

In this cemetery a slab beside that of Colonel Wil- 
liam Deakins reads as follows : 

i( Col. Thomas Deakin born Nov. 12, 1739, departed this 
life the 28th of October, 1804, in the 66th year of his age.” 

From his name, age and title it is extremely probable 
that he was a patriot, but proof has not been located. 

Oak Hill Cemetery. 

1. In Oak Hill Cemetery lie the remains of General 
Uriah Forrest, 1756-1805. General Forrest was origi- 
nally interred in the Presbyterian Cemetery, George- 
town, but on June 21, 1883, liis remains were trans- 
ferred to Oak Hill. The officials at Oak Hill have his 
military title as Colonel, but he was popularly known 


Ely: The District in the American Revolution. 14.5 

as General. Uriah Forrest was a member of the Con- 
tinental Congress from Maryland for two years. He / 
was wounded at Germantown and lost a leg at Brandy- 
wine. He was clerk of the Circuit Court of the Dis- 
trict of Columbia at the time of his death, which oc- 
curred in Georgetown. His remains now lie in Lot 
255, Oak Hill Cemetery, and are covered by an obscure 
old flat stone. 

2. The remains of Rev. Dr. -Stephen Bloomer Batch, 
the most illustrious scholar, orator, patriot, and min- 
ister of the Presbyterian faith in the District of Co- 
lumbia, have had three interments. First they were 
incased in the front wall of his church on September 
24, 1833 ; then, on the demolition of the edifice in 1873, 
they were transferred to the Old Presbyterian Ceme- 
tery, and again through the munificence of W. W. Cor- 
coran, his ashes were re-interred in the spring of 1874 
in Oak Hill Cemetery near the Swiss Chapel, in which 
there is a mural tablet presented by Mr. Corcoran and 
appropriately inscribed with letters of gold, which are 
neither so brilliant nor imperishable as his rare career. 

Interested persons are referred to a biography of 
Dr. Balch, which appears over the name of W. S. Jack- 
son in the Evening Star of April 1, 1893, and another 
by Allen C. Clark in the Columbia Historical Society 
Records. The present story, however, is particularly 
concerned with his patriot career. 

Captain Batch's name does not appear in the Mary- 
land Archives, admittedly incomplete, but as a matter 
of fact, he served three years, having commenced by 
drilling the older boys of his academy, and actively 
served by sallying forth to meet the enemy on the 
shores of Chesapeake Bay at different times from Sep- 
tember 1, 1775, to December 1, 1777. The enemy, how- 
ever, never appeared in Maryland. Dr. Balch also 


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drilled the boys of his academy in Georgetown during 
the War of 1812. A brother, the Rev. Hezekiah James 
Balch, was one of the first signers of the Mecklenberg 
Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775. 

Old Presbyterian Cemetery (Obliterated). 

1. William Waters. Jackson’s “ Chronicles of George- 
town” is authority for the statement that a tombstone 
in the old Presbyterian Cemetery recorded the inter- 
ment of “William Waters, soldier of the Revolution.” 
This is of course a fact, but the grading for the mu- 
nicipal playground in Georgetown which now occupies 
the site of the old cemetery prevents for all time, prob- 
ably, the re-location of the stone. William Waters 
rested August 19, 1859, aged ninety-three years. 

2. Roberdeau or Roubadieu. Tradition in a George- 
town familv named Buchanan carries the statement that 
their grandfather, a Revolutionary soldier whose name 
was Roubadieu, was buried in his uniform in the same 
old cemetery. Such a man and soldier resided there, 
and undoubtedly his ashes repose as indicated. 

3. Robert Peter, the first prominent merchant and 

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the first mayor of Georgetown, died November 15, 
1806, aged eighty years. Taggart, by letters and com- 
mittee reports, shows that he was a civil patriot. His 
signature as a loyal Magistrate or Justice of Peace 
in Lower Potomac Hundred, Frederick County, Md., 
August 22, 1776, is reproduced in “Maryland Records: 
Colonial, Revolutionary, County and Church,” Brum- 
baugh, Yol. 1, p. 179. His enumeration in George 
Town Hundred as “50” in the Census of 1776 appears 
on page 194 of the same work. The Oath of Fidelity 
of Robert Peter, Sr., and Robert Peter, Jr., are pub- 
lished in The National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 
April, 1917, pp. 8-9. These facts disprove Scharf’s 
reference to Robert Peter as a possible Tory. 


Ely: The District in the American Revolution. 147 

4. Colonel George Beall. The Maryland Archives 
have a number of references to this gallant major and 
colonel. He was born in Georgetown, February 26, 
1729, and passed to his reward October 15, 1807, in 
the town of his nativity. 

5. Daniel Heintz ( Hines or Hincls). Daniel Hines, 
at the time of his demise, October 16, 1807, resided in 
Georgetown. His will, recorded in the District of Co- 
lumbia, designates his place of burial and provides a 
headstone. This is another of the obliterated graves. 
The Archives of Maryland, Volume 18, p. 47, show that 
he served as a private, being enrolled July 1, 1776, in 
Captain Peter Mantz’s company of the Flying Camp. 
Daniel Hines had two brothers, Henry and John, who 
were also patriot soldiers. Mr. John Clagett Proctor, 
in the Hines’s Genealogy, has submitted indubitable 
evidence that they passed away and were interred in 
the District of Columbia, but the spot is not now known. 

6. John Barnes. Miss Cordelia Jackson, in her ar- 
ticle, “John Barnes, A Forgotten Philanthropist of 
Georgetown,” in Volume 7, Records Columbia His- 
torical Society, states : ‘ ‘ He offered his services to 
the Continental Army and declared he was ready to die 
for his adopted country.” At that time John Barnes 
resided in New York, but he went to Philadelphia with 
the Congress, and also came to the District with the 
removal of the government. Jefferson appointed him 
Collector of the Port of Georgetown in 1806, and he 
filled the office for twenty years. A marble slab in the 
old cemetery noted the fact that lie passed away in 
his ninety-sixth year. 

Mt. Olivet Cemetery. 

1. Captain Benjamin Burche passed away May 5, 
1832, aged seventy-one. His monument bears the in- 
scription : 


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“He served his country with fidelity and honor through the 
War of the Revolution and the War of 1812 with England. 
For twenty-two years he filled the responsible and honorable 
office of doorkeeper of the House of Representatives of the 
United States. He was an upright, honorable, humane and 

brave man, and was a professor of the religion of Christ. ” 

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2. Colonel Constant Freeman. Colonel Freeman 
entered into rest February 27, 1824, aged seventy-six. 
He was Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. Chiseled on 
his monument is the phrase, “Patriot of ’76.” Col- 
onel Freeman was an officer of the army during the 
whole of the Revolutionary War and also the War of 
1812. He was given a civil appointment because of 
the reduction in the size of the army. 

In the case of Colonel James Hoban, the distin- 
guished architect, whose monument is in Mt. Olivet, 
there is a doubt. Some references in Washingtoniana 
place him in South Carolina during the Revolution, 
but the “Biographies of Architects of the Capitol,” 
which seem to be authentic, locate him in the old coun- 
try during the Revolution. 

The name of Daniel Carroll, whose monument also 
is in Mt. Olivet, has been suggested to the writer. He 
was in his higher teens at the close of the war and later 
a distinguished citizen, but no record of patriot ac- 
tivity has been discovered. 

Family Graveyard, Square 390. 

1. 'Notley Young, one of the original land proprie- 
tors of the District of Columbia, and his father-in-law, 
Digges, were two members chosen from Prince 
George’s County in 1776 to act on the Committee on 
Examination and Observation, known later as the 
Committee of Safety. Notley Young’s remains were 
interred in the family lot, Square 390. They were sub- 


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sequently disinterred and buried by Robert Brent in 
Carroll Chapel Graveyard, Forest Glen, Md. The 
spot is now lost, as no stone marks his grave. 

Grave Spot Unknown. 

Henry Hines ( Heinrich Hines) was a member of the 
same company with his brother, Daniel, but the Ar- 
chives of Maryland, Volume 21, pp. Ill, 494, record 
also that on May 29, 1778, he was commissioned by the 
Council of Maryland as an ensign of Captain Abraham 
Haff’s company in the Frederick Town Battalion of 
Militia in Frederick County, and on August 16 of the 
following year he was commissioned second lieutenant, 
presumably in the same company, and served until the 
close of the war. 

2. John Hines ( Johannes Heintz). The War De- 
partment has submitted the following data : The rec- 
ord shows that one John Hynes, or Hines, served in 
the Revolutionary War as a member of Captain Henry 
Gaither’s company, First Maryland Regiment, com- 
manded by Colonel John H. Stone. His name first 
appears on a company muster roll for August, 1778, 

which shows him enlisted June 5, , for three years. 

His name last appears on a company roll for Feb- 
ruai*y, 1779, which shows that he reenlisted. He par- 
ticipated in the battles of Brandywine and German- 
town, and many of his personal reminiscences are on 
record. When grown to manhood, he visited his na- 
tive country, Germany, and returned in 1773 in charge 
of a party of 273 German immigrants. With these 
immigrants, he adroitly brought in forty stand of 
arms which were later of great use in the Revolution. 
John Hines was the father of Christian Hines, who 
wrote “Early Recollections of Washington City,” and 
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upon these ‘‘Recollections’’ is based much of the sub- 
sequent historical writings in the District of Columbia. 

3. Major John Adlum was a typical soldier and ci- 
vilian of his time, who resided for about thirty-six 

years near the present site of the Bureau of Stand- 

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ards. He died March 1, 1836, in his seventy-seventh 
year. Major Adlum was quite certainly buried on his 
estate and within the District of Columbia, but the spot 
is not known. John Adlum was a soldier in the Revo- 
lution from Pennsylvania and was carried on the D. C. 
Pension Rolls as a corporal. He was, however, a 
major in the Provisional Army during the adminis- 
tration of John Adams and a brigadier-general in the 
Pennsylvania militia. In private life he was a farmer 
and a recognized authority on grapes and American 
wine-making. 

4. Captain Henry Carbery , of the distinguished 
Maryland and District family of that name, resided 
for a long time in Washington. He was gathered unto 
his fathers May 26, 1822, “at his seat near George- 
town, ’ ’ the Intelligencer records. Captain Carbery was 
carried on the District Pension Rolls and his body is 
probably in the yard of Trinity Catholic Church, 
Georgetown. 

The National Intelligencer carried a notice that 
Anthony Drane, “a Revolutionary soldier,” died near 
Rock Creek Church, January 3, 1831. This man’s 
home was within or near the District and his remains 
probably lie in Rock Creek Churchyard. 

Major Henry H. Chapman died in Georgetown, 
December 13, 1821, according to the Maryland Gazet- 
teer Revolutionary Obituaries, D. A. R., p. 17. 

The grave of Frederick Hesser, a Pennsylvania pa- 
triot drummer boy at thirteen years, has been marked 
by the American Chapter D. A. R., D. C. (11th Report 


Ely: The District in the American Revolution. 151 


D. A. R., p. 69). The author has not had an oppor- 
tunity to study this interesting case. 

This concludes the definite designation of forty-one 
patriot graves and the facts relating to several other 
possibilities, but the paper would not be complete with- 
out recording the heroic services of other groups and 
individuals from this District. 

At a meeting of citizens held at the County Court 
House at Frederick Town, November 18, 1774, a com- 
mittee was appointed to carry out the “association” 
agreed upon by the Continental Congress, and among 
the names are the following from Georgetown or 
nearby : 

John Murdock, Thomas Johns, William Deakins, 
Jr., Bernard O’Neill, Brooke Beall, Joseph Thelkeld, 
Walter Smith, Thomas Beall of George, Francis 
Deakins, Casper Schaaf, Richard Crabbe. 

Georgetown and vicinity was represented on the 
County Committee of Correspondence by the fol- 
lowing : 

Thomas Johns (on preceding), Walter Smith (on 
preceding), William Deakins, John Murdock (on pre- 
ceding), Bernard O’Neill (on preceding), Casper 
Schaaf (on preceding), Thomas Crampin. 

John Murdock became the colonel; Thomas Johns 
the lieutenant-colonel; William Brooke (a new name) 
the first major; and William Deakins the second ma- 
jor of one of the battalions of Frederick County mi- 
litia raised under the resolution of the Maryland Con- 
vention passed in January, 1776, to put the Province in 
a “state of defence.” Benjamin Spyker, captain, and 
the other officers and men of the battalion came from 
Georgetown and vicinity, according to Taggart. 

Further verification of the record has been made by 
C. C. Magruder, Jr., and the writer. Investigators 


152 Records of the Columbia Historical Society. 


are referred for the names to pp. 42 and 43, V olume 
18, Archives of Maryland, where 177 men may be 
counted. 

John Yoast, a Georgetown gunsmith, who entered 
into a contract with the Maryland Council of Safety to 
furnish a quantity of muskets may properly be spe- 
cially listed. 

Thomas Richardson,, captain ; Alexander McFadden, 
first lieutenant; John Peter, second lieutenant, led a 
company out of Georgetown early in the war. 

Thomas Beall, possibly the one by that name who 
was a trustee of the Federal City, took a company of 
riflemen from Georgetown, and attained the rank of 
colonel in the Maryland troops. 

Captain Leonard Deakins and Francis Deakins, 
brother of Leonard, recruited companies of brave 
young men and started for the seat of war in 1776. 

The Colonel William Deakins, Jr., to whom refer- 
ence is made in the interments in Rock Creek Ceme- 
tery, was a brother of Francis and Leonard. 

A brave officer in the Maryland Line, Colonel Charles 
Beatty, of Frederick County, made Georgetown his 
home after the war. 

Thomas Richardson, a Georgetown merchant, classed 
himself with the civil patriots by his disposition of a 
certain consignment of tea. 

Benjamin Stoddert, first Secretary of the Navy, was 
horn in nearby Maryland and became a resident of 
Georgetown in 1783. His splendid Revolutionary 
record is to he found in many sources. Major Stod- 
dert’s remains repose at Addison’s Chapel near the 
District line at Chesapeake Junction. 

The rolls of two companies which marched from 
lower Frederick early in the war have been lost. 
These men were also drawn from within or near the 


Ely: The District in the American Revolution. 153 


District, the same as were the men recorded in the 
three companies already identified. Many of the offi- 
cers are known and are included in these notes. If 
the lost companies averaged sixty, which seems prob- 
able, then the grand total of men going out amounts to 
tivo hundred mid ninety-seven. The information found 
makes it sure that between two hundred and fifty and 
three hundred active patriotic men were to be found 
within the territory under consideration. 

It is a matter of interest that the United States Pen- 
sion Roll, Volume 3, the last pages of which are de- 
voted to the District of Columbia, record about ninety- 
five names of Revolutionary War Pensioners, who re- 
sided in the District of Columbia. The list carries 
men mentioned heretofore in this paper, e. g., Peter 
Faulkner, Jacob Gideon, Dr. Balch and Captain Car- 
bery. 

Many more of these pensioners are probably repos- 
ing in the District and will afford a fruitful source of 
research. 

Interments of buff and blue patriots in the east bear 
no relation to the numbers that went to the seat of war 
from a particular locality. Many, of course, never 
returned, others who did return were later attracted 
to the west by bounty lands and other inducements. It 
is said on good authority that there are more soldiers 
of the Revolution buried in Ohio than in either Massa- 
chusetts or Virginia. This is the secret of the diffi- 
culty in pointing out more spots in the east hallowed 
by the remains of these self-sacrificing heroes. This 
paper lists over two hundred and fifty men, yet ac- 
counts for only forty-one (41) burials. It does not 
claim to be complete in either particular. The most 
the writer pretends is that a beginning has been made, 
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for interments of those related to the present District 
of Columbia who helped lay the cornerstones of Ameri- 
can independence and government. Indebtedness is ac- 
knowledged to Jackson and Taggart, and they are com- 
mended for their accuracy. Their narratives, how- 
ever, contain mostly other matter, while this adheres 
to the theme of the title and draws its facts from manv 
other sources. 

In the appointment of its committee the Sons of the 
American Revolution doubtless had in mind the dis- 
covery of patriot sepulchers not clearly or permanently 
marked. If such was the purpose, several have been 
located, and it remains for a grateful public, or Con- 
gress, to erect adequate memorials. 

Of one spot more than passing notice should be 
taken. The Old Presbyterian Cemetery, as it was 
known, was under the legal and spiritual care of a com- 
munity church that fostered and even furnished early 
shelter and funds for several other denominations until 
such groups could make provision of their own. The 
cemetery, or graveyard, was generally used by rich and 
poor of all faiths. The pastor who said the last sad 
rites for more than fifty years over the bodies as they 
were lowered in “God’s acre” was himself a loved 
patriot. Seven coffins of the more prominent have 
been removed; the ashes of six certainly, and doubt- 
less many others, are still there, but memory and grati- 
tude belong to all. Then what more fitting place in 
the National Capital than this hallowed land, now the 
Georgetown municipal playground, upon which to 
erect a monument or memorial fountain to the coura- 
geous spirits of the Revolutionary period! Certainly 
it would be a lesson to the youth of today, that courage 
and patriotism are virtues that republics highly honor. 
Then, too, it would be a tribute due old Georgetown 
as a splendid center of active patriotism. 












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